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I can agree with this method but I still think you need to address the issue of barking and why it occurred.

You are addressing it Mary Lynn. just indirectly. If you go about it by calling the dog back, you are going to make the spinning worse. You will increase the anxiety and create more barking. Addressing the barking directly will cause more pressure and more barking.

How many dogs have you trained that have had this issue? I learned my approach 12 years ago, working with Greg Bartlett, who had been Bill Eckett's young dog trainer. At the time I was working with him and my dogs, he had a higher % of young dogs that turned into FCs than Jim Van Engen. No slap on Jim, I adore him. But the guy knew his dogs.

I have pro trained dogs, dogs I've trained myself, and dogs that have issues created by pros or prior owners. I have also had the good fortune of working with some of the best in the country.

You are addressing it Mary Lynn. just indirectly. If you go about it by calling the dog back, you are going to make the spinning worse. You will increase the anxiety and create more barking. Addressing the barking directly will cause more pressure and more barking.

How many dogs have you trained that have had this issue? I learned my approach 12 years ago, working with Greg Bartlett, who had been Bill Eckett's young dog trainer. At the time I was working with him and my dogs, he had a higher % of young dogs that turned into FCs than Jim Van Engen. No slap on Jim, I adore him. But the guy knew his dogs.

I have pro trained dogs, dogs I've trained myself, and dogs that have issues created by pros or prior owners. I have also had the good fortune of working with some of the best in the country.

Momentum blinds are cool regards-

I find myself going to these constantly. Old marks, really old prior blinds, taught, and sometimes even sight. Anything to get the momentem rolling. No pops and not slow going. I bet there wouldn't be a bark either... I even ran one accross a LONG sod field last night with the blind out of sight. She was going for the end of the field and sounding like a horse running!

Is there a step between momentum blinds/ Taught / old taught blinds and doing cold blinds again?

I've gone back and forth a couple of times to build confidence with factors and distance, but once I go back to the cold and start lining her up for a cold, I get a bark/noise from being amped up to go and frustration with my pickiness - although I don't feel like I'm fidgeting all that long. She's trying to front seat me.

So as I was just writing that, I realized I should do some more wagon wheels and get her desensitized to the line process again. Build the right habit of nose to toes and letting me line her up.

Is there a step between momentum blinds/ Taught / old taught blinds and doing cold blinds again?

I've gone back and forth a couple of times to build confidence with factors and distance, but once I go back to the cold and start lining her up for a cold, I get a bark/noise from being amped up to go and frustration with my pickiness - although I don't feel like I'm fidgeting all that long. She's trying to front seat me.

So as I was just writing that, I realized I should do some more wagon wheels and get her desensitized to the line process again. Build the right habit of nose to toes and letting me line her up.

Taught/known/momentum/pattern- Some folks like to make semantics out of it with naming it as if they came up with the idea. They've been used since the 1950's.

There should be no handler pickiness or fidgeting because you have "taught" the dog where the blind is, you've broken it down, you've been a smart trainer and built it in steps so the difficulty can become increasingly harder as the dog progresses in training. Step up and kick the dog off handle it depending upon the flavor of the day. If momentum is needed, don't handle. If control is needed, you can handle at key locations on the blind.

You originally sounded as if you were suggesting that indirect pressure was not the answer. Some old schoolers might take a dog which barks on the line, grab it's muzzle, stuff him down and use a whiffle ball bat and try to rattle a barking dog. I thought something like that was what you meant by addressing the specific issue on the line.

You originally sounded as if you were suggesting that indirect pressure was not the answer. Some old schoolers might take a dog which barks on the line, grab it's muzzle, stuff him down and use a whiffle ball bat and try to rattle a barking dog. I thought something like that was what you meant by addressing the specific issue on the line.